The Public Foundation “Media Policy Institute” (MPI) published the results of monitoring the situation with freedom of speech in Kyrgyzstan from October 2020 to March 2022. The document states that the reporting period covers significant events affecting freedom of speech and expression of opinion in the country, the situation in the media environment of the […]
On the fact of extortion of a bribe, a senior investigator of the investigative service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was detained. This was reported by the State Committee for National Security. According to the State Committee for National Security, the police major was detained while receiving a bribe of $2,400 (200,000 KGS). It […]
The debunking and deposition of the merits of the country’s first President, Nursultan Nazarbayev, continues in Kazakhstan. Following the detentions and arrests of members of his clan and relatives, there is more and more talk that Nazarbayev himself should be subjected to appropriate legal measures. It’s not possible to bring the ex-leader of Kazakhstan to […]
On April 18, the National Center for the Prevention of Torture received a report that a hospital attendant had beaten a patient in Tokmok’s psycho-neurological institution No.1. Based on the appeal, the Center’s employees visited this institution. During the conversation, the victim said that on January 17, when he was smoking in the toilet, the […]
In Kazakhstan, the purge of law enforcement agencies from corrupt officials continues. It began with the arrest of the former head of the National Security Committee, Karim Masimov, after the January riots. Masimov is charged with actions aimed at “Forcible seizure of power”, “Abuse of power”, as well as taking a bribe in the amount […]
375 criminal cases on torture were under investigation in March. Such data are provided in the consolidated report on registered criminal offenses of the Committee on Legal Statistics and Special Records under the Prosecutor General’s Office of Kazakhstan. Out of 375 crimes under the article “Torture”, 343 were registered in the reporting period, and 308 […]
3,000 unique treasures have been stolen from 14 museums in the country over the past 30 years. Inventory and possible compensation for damage to cultural heritage sites will start only now. This will be done by the Prosecutor General’s Office with specialists from the Ministries of Tourism and Cultural Heritage. The value of the stolen […]
Participants of Tashkent’s International Animation Forum announced the requirement to preview films by the State Security Service. According to critic Dina Goder, the festival was controlled from the first day by the National Security Service (an analogue of the Russian FSB). “For the programs to be shown, their curators had to send films in advance […]
Relatives of the founder of the Islamic Renaissance Party, banned in Tajikistan, Said Abdullo Nuri, reported that one of his grandsons was detained during a raid (illegal detention and forced conscription into the army). 21-year-old Khabibullo Saidov, one of Nuri’s grandchildren, is a third-year student at the university in Bokhtar. His relatives reported that on […]
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